Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
James Carey, former dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois, has died. He was perhaps best known for his enunciation of the ritual model of communication, which he posited against the transmission model.
I've only had one opportunity to see Carey speak, as he left the ICR ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
The Irish government is investigating introducing Performance Related Pay (PRP) for university professors:While PRP could lessen the academic freedom enjoyed by professors, it could also provide pay bonuses of up to 20 per cent for those identified as "top performers". Already, universities can break their pay scales to offer competitive ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
You couldn't make it up. Greg Palast draws attention to some of the questions on the standardized test for third-grade students in New York. Or, rather, since the test is currently taking place, the official practice test:The year 1999 was a big one for the Williams sisters. In February, Serena ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
More bad news for high-school radio, this time from Maynard, Massachusetts, where WAVM looks set to lose its frequency assignment after a challenge by a Christian broadcasting network. WAVM had undertaken the process of converting from a 10 watt to a 250 watt license - in order to go from ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - which covers Illinois, along with Michigan and Indiana - has made a decision that could be problematic for student publications. In essence:The court ruled that the Supreme Court’s 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, permitting censorship on high school student newspapers, applies to ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
So Deep Throat has gone public. The famous source was Deputy FBI Director Mark Felt.That means, incidentally, that the UIUC investigative journalism class got it wrong when they concluded it was Fred Fielding, Deputy Counsel to Nixon. Somehow I don't think that should detract too much, though, from the student ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Jonathan Lawson of Reclaim the Media points to the danger being faced by Seattle high-school station KNHC. Unlike previous cases I've covered previously this time the danger is from the school district itself which faces a large budget shortfall and is considering selling the station. In a sign of the ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
NUI, Galway is founding an Academy for Irish-language university education. The plan is to have 1,500 students participating in the various campuses, including the first (Irish-language) third level facility in the Chorca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, with classes available in many of the disciplines offered in Arts and Science in the main ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
The Nation has just published a leaked memo by Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley from last February in which he proposes various sanctions that should be used against Graduate Employees if they go on strike, as they now have. The sanction would include forcing them to teach an extra semester (without ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
A survey out today on third level students in Ireland is being reported as very worrying by RTÉ. Among the reported issues are that one in ten students have engaged in unsafe sexual beahviour and that:Similar amounts of money were spent on food, an essential and on alcohol, a non-essential.To ...
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